From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Steve French <smfltc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: setting PF_ flags from user space PF_LESS_THROTTLE
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 23:49:29 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050927234929.0ea86128.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1127858515.6120.3.camel@stevef95.austin.ibm.com>
Steve French <smfltc@us.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> I wanted to see if PF_LESS_THROTTLE would be helpful for Samba to set(as
> it is for nfsd, which sets it directly in kernel) to avoid loopback
> mount hangs when low on memory.
>
> Any idea whether the task flags, in particular PF_LESS_THROTTLE could be
> set from user space (I did not see an obvious way, short of invoking a
> new kernel helper, which does not exist, to set it on user space's
> behalf)?
sys_prctl()?
prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-28 6:50 UTC|newest]
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2005-09-27 22:01 Steve French
2005-09-28 6:49 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
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